B0ycey wrote:
Actually, it is your ideology that limits you. I don't have a dog in this fight. America, China, Russia, they are all the same and they are all different. But one thing they are definitely similar on is self interest and acting in that interest. Russia didn't act in defence, it acted in haste. When the war was won, it was who came in first that took the spoils. Eastern Europe didn't choose to be occupied by the SU. If they didn’t choose than then that is imperialism at work.
You make it sound like the alternative was for the USSR to just sit on its hands, or play Sudoku, or something.
The superpower Cold War was on. I appreciate your brief lunge at neutrality, but somehow, in your world-space, we should feel the need to first take 'Russia' to task. Why is your spotlight so Russia-philic -- ? You're so content to ignore the larger Cold War, as a backdrop, and of its own topic. And maybe, if everyone sticks around long-enough, we'll just-maybe daringly slip-in a *mention* of *U.S.* imperialism during this period.
B0ycey wrote:
I don't know why you struggle to understand this. Perhaps it is you being obtuse. Or perhaps it doesn't fit into your narrative so you choose to ignore it. But whether you accept this inconvenient truth or not, it doesn't change the truth.
I'm not ignoring it -- I said previously, to late, that I acknowledge the Stalinist Iron Curtain. Now we're freed-up to talk about the *weather*, or something, instead.